Not really. It’s a little out of spite too because i’m Brazilian, this shit took tax money of ours to do a lame event that we don’t win shit at.
To me the Olympics should always be in Greece and the World cup somewhere on the developed side of West Europe, England, Germany, France, Italy. They already have the…

A massive budget is the only way the oligarchs can siphon billions from the games. The Sochi build and staging came in somewhere between $40-50 billion according to the official numbers. Riiiiiiiiiiight.

Calgary 88 was a success story. The arena is still used for the NHL team. The ski jump, bobsled and louge tracks host international competitions. The speedskating venue is the national programs hq.

The last thing Olympic committees want is existing infrastructure. Brazil actually represents a compromise of sorts because it built a number of facilities for the World Cup. But generally, the action in this area is with BRICS nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa), countries with emerging economies,…

I feel like the people running the Olympics either own or have significant shares in construction companies and they’re just feeding their own pockets. That’s the only way this makes sense.

Atlanta didn’t see any long-term boost, and the Braves, who took over the Olympic stadium are moving to a new stadium in the suburbs after only 20 years.

That’s not what they’re after. Its not about hosting - its about revenue and exchanges of money. You can hide a grand metric fuckton of cash exchanges in the nightmarish bullshit that is olympic venue construction. Brazil, however, is even more corrupt. Sometimes I think the only goal of the olympics is to choose the…

I’m not sure which step this is on the way to another military coup in Brazil, but I’m pretty sure it is one of the steps.

Thanks! I can also spell Boobless on a calculator.

Rio campaigned against other cities to get the Olympics and won. They weren’t begged or compelled to do anything against their will. They freely put together a competitive bid, including building these things. They are not only obliged to fulfill their own plan and to do what they already said they would do during the…

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Dan Wetzel of Yahoo wrote a few stories around Sochi that explicitly said the IOC shot down Chicago’s 2016 bid because the vast majority of venues and facilities were already built. Apparently their demands included a new five-star hotel.

I don’t get why they don’t just have 1 city do the summer and 1 city do the winter and never leave. Then you can build real stadiums that are built to last and don’t have to worry about wasting billions of dollars on 2 weeks of festivities .

bribes.

For the life of me I’ll never understand why they make these host countries build all this bullshit. Use the existing facilities. Isn’t that part of the whole “hosting” thing? To show off your country’s charms? If a country doesn’t have the infrastructure to host the games as is, then don’t fucking go there.

Lest anyone too young to know might think the draft dodger angle is the biggest insult in this tweet, refusing to call him Ali, and instead insisting on calling him Clay was the racist dog whistle of choice back then. Racist whites refused to do so for years after.

Dear Representative Daniel,

But Trump’s saying that the area suffered due to outsourcing. Point is, it didn’t. It’s economically BOOMING because of that exact outsourcing. If it were done locally, there’s no reason to believe the companies would have done better and resulted in said boom.

What I guess I meant was, the tone of this article was similar to the “who is funding the Gawker lawsuit” and it just sounded like you have some suspicions of strange dealings. I think Simmons is a wiener, personally, but he puts good content together and I don't personally care how it's getting funded

Last year’s Cavs would beat this Toronto team too